Entity Framework Contracts in England

Microsoft Entity Framework
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Entity Framework skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Entity Framework over the 6 months leading up to 17 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 420 473 544
Rank change year-on-year +53 +71 -49
Contract jobs citing Entity Framework 58 76 94
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.23% 0.20% 0.20%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.04% 0.97% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 55 73
10th Percentile £325 £315 £413
25th Percentile £450 £379 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.21% -9.52% +10.53%
75th Percentile £554 £586 £650
90th Percentile £650 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £455 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -4.21% -9.52% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £75.00
Median hourly rate - - £80.00
75th Percentile - - £85.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £80.00
% change year-on-year - - +25.79%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

Entity Framework falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 5,562 7,816 10,616
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.47% 20.86% 22.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,859 5,454 7,896
10th Percentile £358 £350 £388
25th Percentile £413 £431 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £788 £800 £798
UK median daily rate £515 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -3.74% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 257 133
10th Percentile £32.10 £22.75 £35.05
25th Percentile £50.00 £43.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £61.25 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.36% -15.38% +23.22%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £81.05 £74.70 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £56.25 £51.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.70% -20.38% +23.81%

Entity Framework
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Entity Framework as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Entity Framework in England

Entity Framework
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Entity Framework in England.

Daily rate trend for Entity Framework in England

Entity Framework
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Entity Framework in England over the 6 months to 17 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Entity Framework in England

Entity Framework
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Entity Framework in England.

Hourly rate trend for Entity Framework in England

Entity Framework
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Entity Framework within the England region over the 6 months to 17 June 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +48 47 £500 +3.09% 192
South East +34 3 £321 -41.24% 219
East of England +26 3 £350 - 154
West Midlands +9 2 £288 - 104
Midlands +6 2 £288 -32.35% 185
North West +4 1 £625 +38.89% 125
North of England -4 1 £625 +38.89% 266
South West - 1 £375 - 130
Entity Framework
UK

Entity Framework
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (5.17%) Umbraco
2 2 (3.45%) Confluence
3 1 (1.72%) CMS
3 1 (1.72%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.72%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 2 (3.45%) Aladdin
1 2 (3.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.72%) Eikon
2 1 (1.72%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 27 (46.55%) Azure
2 19 (32.76%) AWS
3 10 (17.24%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (12.07%) Azure Service Bus
5 6 (10.34%) Azure Data Factory
6 4 (6.90%) Azure Functions
6 4 (6.90%) GitHub
6 4 (6.90%) PaaS
6 4 (6.90%) Power Platform
6 4 (6.90%) Serverless
7 3 (5.17%) Azure Logic Apps
7 3 (5.17%) Entra ID
8 2 (3.45%) Azure AKS
8 2 (3.45%) Azure API Management
8 2 (3.45%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (3.45%) Azure Storage
8 2 (3.45%) Boomi
8 2 (3.45%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (3.45%) IaaS
8 2 (3.45%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (41.38%) SQL Server
2 17 (29.31%) Relational Database
3 12 (20.69%) Amazon RDS
3 12 (20.69%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (10.34%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (10.34%) MongoDB
5 4 (6.90%) MySQL
6 3 (5.17%) NoSQL
7 2 (3.45%) DocumentDB
7 2 (3.45%) Redis
7 2 (3.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (1.72%) Parquet
8 1 (1.72%) Power BI
8 1 (1.72%) RDBMS
8 1 (1.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 13 (22.41%) Git
2 7 (12.07%) JIRA
3 4 (6.90%) NUnit
4 3 (5.17%) SpecFlow
4 3 (5.17%) Visual Studio
5 2 (3.45%) GitLab
5 2 (3.45%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.72%) gulp
6 1 (1.72%) JetBrains Rider
6 1 (1.72%) Moq
6 1 (1.72%) Postman
6 1 (1.72%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (1.72%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 24 (41.38%) Finance
2 19 (32.76%) Social Skills
3 7 (12.07%) Banking
4 5 (8.62%) Billing
5 3 (5.17%) Legal
6 2 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (3.45%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.72%) Front Office
7 1 (1.72%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 43 (74.14%) Developer
2 25 (43.10%) .NET Developer
3 13 (22.41%) Senior
4 9 (15.52%) Cloud Developer
4 9 (15.52%) Senior Developer
5 8 (13.79%) C# Developer
6 7 (12.07%) Angular Developer
6 7 (12.07%) C# .NET Developer
7 5 (8.62%) Data Engineer
7 5 (8.62%) Senior Data Engineer
8 4 (6.90%) Architect
8 4 (6.90%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (6.90%) Senior .NET Developer
8 4 (6.90%) Senior C# Developer
8 4 (6.90%) Software Engineer
9 3 (5.17%) .NET Software Engineer
9 3 (5.17%) Azure Developer
9 3 (5.17%) C# Software Engineer
9 3 (5.17%) Full-Stack Developer
9 3 (5.17%) Senior C# .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (98.28%) .NET
2 56 (96.55%) .NET Framework
3 18 (31.03%) .NET Core
3 18 (31.03%) REST
4 15 (25.86%) AngularJS
5 14 (24.14%) ASP.NET
5 14 (24.14%) HTML
6 13 (22.41%) RESTful
7 12 (20.69%) CSS
8 10 (17.24%) ASP.NET MVC
8 10 (17.24%) ASP.NET Web API
9 9 (15.52%) Dapper ORM
9 9 (15.52%) React
9 9 (15.52%) WCF
10 8 (13.79%) jQuery
11 7 (12.07%) NHibernate
12 6 (10.34%) Web Services
13 5 (8.62%) LINQ
13 5 (8.62%) RabbitMQ
13 5 (8.62%) StructureMap
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.62%) N-Tier
2 2 (3.45%) Algorithms
2 2 (3.45%) Cloud Native
2 2 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (3.45%) Fixed Income
2 2 (3.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (1.72%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (1.72%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.72%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.72%) Virtual Team
3 1 (1.72%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (48.28%) Agile
2 20 (34.48%) MVC
3 18 (31.03%) CI/CD
4 17 (29.31%) Unit Testing
5 16 (27.59%) DevOps
6 15 (25.86%) Microservices
7 14 (24.14%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (22.41%) Full-Stack Development
9 11 (18.97%) Containerisation
9 11 (18.97%) Infrastructure as Code
9 11 (18.97%) Scrum
10 9 (15.52%) TDD
11 7 (12.07%) CRM
11 7 (12.07%) Design Patterns
11 7 (12.07%) System Integration Testing
11 7 (12.07%) Test Automation
11 7 (12.07%) User Acceptance Testing
12 6 (10.34%) OOP
12 6 (10.34%) SOLID
12 6 (10.34%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 49 (84.48%) C#
2 37 (63.79%) SQL
3 12 (20.69%) JavaScript
3 12 (20.69%) PL/SQL
4 11 (18.97%) RPG
4 11 (18.97%) RPG IV
5 6 (10.34%) T-SQL
6 5 (8.62%) Python
7 2 (3.45%) TypeScript
7 2 (3.45%) VB
7 2 (3.45%) VB6
8 1 (1.72%) Bicep
8 1 (1.72%) Java
8 1 (1.72%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (13.79%) Degree
2 5 (8.62%) MCPD
2 5 (8.62%) MCSD
2 5 (8.62%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (5.17%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.72%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.62%) QA
2 3 (5.17%) Accessibility
System Software
1 20 (34.48%) Docker
2 2 (3.45%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 16 (27.59%) Kubernetes
2 4 (6.90%) Terraform
3 1 (1.72%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 15 (25.86%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.90%) Solace
2 4 (6.90%) TIBCO
3 3 (5.17%) Oracle
4 1 (1.72%) Bloomberg
4 1 (1.72%) IBM
4 1 (1.72%) Murex
4 1 (1.72%) Reuters
4 1 (1.72%) Splunk